The common goal of score4more and the DNP is to promote sustainability and transformation across the economy. This requires a scalable data platform and evaluation methodology in order to be able to analyze a large number of companies. This is where the DNP uses the score4more platform, which is not only technically capable of mapping a large number of companies, but also methodologically shares the DNP’s focus on pioneers and examples of transformation.

You create a company profile for your company in your sector via score4more. You can change this profile as often as you like until the deadline for the German Sustainability Award competition. You can maintain the status of your profile in the application. The existing profile will be automatically adopted for the DNP by the DNP deadline at the latest.

Use these FAQs and our blog articles as well as the descriptions of the German Sustainability Award. You can also take advantage of our free 15-minute onboarding session, which you can arrange directly here.

The user who creates the account and the profile is the first contact for the profile and therefore also for the DNP application. Please maintain the organization details in the profile, including all relevant contact details for the company and the respective contact persons. These contact details will be sent to the DNP in order to organize the communication process across the competition.

The abstract is of central importance in the application. The jury gets a quick overview of your application via the abstract and the three sustainability highlights below it. It is important that the abstract meets the minimum formal requirements for the jury. These are shown in the profile during processing. The abstract will also be used later by the DNP as an editorial template to publish the nominees on the DNP website on a map by sector. The published abstracts are edited by the DNP and are not automatically linked to the score4more profile. If you wish to make changes, please contact the DNP directly.

The advantage of the score4more platform is that you can create a profile at any time and the profile can always be considered for the competition. This means that if you create a profile after the deadline, it can be used directly for next year’s DNP.

Yes, DNP participants only need to register and create a company profile on score4more in order to participate in the DNP. These are free of charge for all companies. In addition, there are paid additional functionalities for companies on score4more. These are voluntary and can be booked separately, but are not a prerequisite for DNP participation.

The profile focuses on a few key topics for your company’s chosen sector and is based on the EU reporting standard ESRS. This makes it easier to compare industry-specific, material issues across different companies. If your company has provided and published sustainability services that are not queried in the profile but which you would like to share with the DNP jury for the competition, additional input fields and an optional upload option for an additional document are available under the “DNP” menu item.

Yes, under the menu item “DNP” you can enter further sustainability achievements that you consider relevant for the DNP jury. This can be a text of a maximum of 2,000 characters or a document (PDF, JPEG or PNG) with a maximum size of 20 MB. The first 10 pages of the uploaded file will be considered by the jury.

In some cases, using the Firefox browser can lead to problems in the application. Please make sure that the latest version of the browser is installed or preferably use one of the following browsers: Chrome, Internet Explorer or Safari. Please contact our support team, who will help you as quickly as possible.

You can and should simply update your profile from the previous year. The profile can still be accessed with the login data you provided at https://app.score4more.eu/login. If you no longer have your password, you can assign a new one there. The data from the previous year is available as a PDF download for security reasons, which is why you can overwrite, delete or add to the existing data in the profile as you wish.

Your company may have been pre-researched by score4more, i.e. a profile has been prepared by our team of analysts and with the help of artificial intelligence. In this case, you will receive a link to accept the profile so that you can add further details to the pre-researched profile. During the process, you will be asked to enter your password, which you can use to log in at any time.

As part of the cooperation with the German Sustainability Award, the information in your profile will be made available to the DNP and the DNP jury members in your sector in order to determine nominees and award winners. The data will only be forwarded to the DNP if you agree to this and decide to take part in the award. The files uploaded as part of the DNP will only be used as part of the jury process.

Nominees and finalists can participate again this year, but DNP winners from the previous year are not eligible. They can also update their profile, but will not be considered in the jury process. Further details can be found at the DNP.

No, all companies are treated equally in the DNP process with your company profile, regardless of whether you have a paid account or a free account with score4more. However, you can use the benchmarking to gain insights into the sustainability performance of your peers in your industry and learn from them.

The scoring is provided for all DNP participants as an analysis service by score4more for the DNP. Based on the scoring, the DNP decides on the longlist of companies to be presented to the jury. The jury itself does not receive the scoring results and decides independently and uninfluenced by the scoring on the basis of the information in the company profile. Further information on the jury process is available from the DNP.